Factom: The Bitcoin 2.0 Tool Changing The Way Companies Keep Records

Factom: The Bitcoin 2.0 Tool Changing The Way Companies Keep Records

Factom is one of those ideas that just seems too crazy to be real, yet simple enough to be feasible. This company, built on the bitcoin blockchain, seeks to turn record-keeping into an automated, simplified process. The way Factom hopes to accomplish this goal is by focusing on the hashes in the blockchain. Their process is currently in testing, but Factom puts data into hashes and stores it on the blockchain. The information is accounted for, and every time the record is changed a new hash is stored. If there’s any tampering with information previously accounted for, the change shows up....


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